Philippine hitman says he heard Duterte order killings

By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - A self-confessed hitman testified on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte personally issued assassination orders while mayor of a city where activists say hundreds of summary executions took place. Speaking during a senate hearing investigating the Philippine president's anti-crime crackdown, Edgar Matobato said he heard Duterte, as mayor of Davao city in the early 1990s, give instructions to carry out extrajudicial killings. "Our job was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers," said the 57-year-old, adding he himself had killed more than 50 people while working for a "Davao Death Squad".